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A small number of activists have tried to erect a four metre high mock eviction notice on one of Housing Secretary...

Landlords and renters’ activists are at either end of the spectrum reacting to a controversial report on the private rental sector. Yesterday...

Activists are beginning to pile pressure on London Labour Mayor Sadiq Khan, claiming the public will be disappointed if he toes...

The government has committed to returning the amended Renters Reform Bill to the House of Commons in mid-April. MPs return from their...

The controversial proposal for permanent rent controls in Scotland, published just ahead of the Easter holiday, doesn’t go far enough for...

An all-party House of Commons committee is calling on Local Housing Allowance to be updated automatically and annually. LHA rates have been...

Green Party activists responsible for rent controls on Scotland have now slammed landlords who claim the number of rented homes is...

A controversial proposal for a £300m tax grab on landlords appears to closely follow a policy suggestion put forward by activists...

Generation Rent has issued an angry statement about amendments to the Renters Reform Bill - just as one MP says agreement...

Airbnb has released new figures showing that the typical host landlord makes a modest £5,500 a year by sharing their space...

Housing Secretary Michael Gove’s proposals to restrict Airbnb-style short lets do not go far enough, a group of activists has said. Yesterday...

A survey by an activist group suggests that one in three tenants claim that their private renting conditions are impacting their...

Activists in the Generation Rent campaign says big city Mayors should “tackle the worst landlords and seize their properties.” It also wants...

Generation Rent has given a qualified thumbs up to Housing Secretary Michael Gove’s ideas for homes on brownfield land. This week Gove...

The Renters Reform Coalition - a group of organisations including Shelter and Generation Rent - has again written to Housing Secretary...

The Generation Rent activist group has called for a series of reforms about damp and mould. It wants the reinstatement of energy...

HM Treasury has opened its representations portal, meaning landlords - and anyone else - can submit their ideas for the next...

The controversial activist group Acorn has made a formal public apology to the chief executive of the National Residential Landlords Association. On...

The controversial Renters Reform Coalition - a band of campaigners including the Acorn and Generation Rent ginger groups - claims public...

Christmas goodwill towards landlords seems in short supply from activist group Generation Rent.  It has this week issued a statement saying the...

Generation Rent says it’s worked out what rent levels will be in two years’ time. The activists say rents will rise 14...

Many have welcomed the move by Chancellor Jeremy Hunt to unfreeze the Local Housing Allowance - but some tenant activists say...

A tenants’ union has developed an app which it claims makes it easy to complain about short lets. Living Rent - a...

A pressure group claims the threat of being evicted makes tenants age more quickly.  Generation Rent claims there is a study by...

A collection of pressure groups, fronted by Generation Rent, wants all private rental homes going on sale to be offered first...

There’s been a strong personal attack on Prime Minister Rishi Sunak by anti-landlord activists over the subject of energy efficiency. The Generation...

Rental activists are up in arms because Housing Secretary Michael Gove failed to mention the Renters Reform Bill during his keynote...

The hardline activist group Acorn - part of the Renters Reform Coalition involving Generation Rent - now claims that some 600,000...

Activists in the Generation Rent group are running what they call Renters’ Rights Awareness Week in the second half of October.   “Whether...

While many sections of the property industry welcome the change of tone in Rishi Sunak’s approach to green issues, one group...

A charity claims that apparent delays to the Renters Reform Bill, which has yet to get a Second Reading in the...

Activists in the Generation Rent campaign are complaining that the Renters Reform Bill hasn’t been placed ahead of other Parliamentary business...

The Generation Rent group of activists says Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey is on their side about Section 21 evictions. Bailey...

The Generation Rent campaign has launched a petition on its website to give councils power to license holiday lets.  The campaign claims...

The Generation Rent group of activists has written an open letter to mortgage firm chief executives asking for special dispensation for...

Generation Rent says Shelter has it right when it complains about evictions in the private rental sector. Earlier this week Shelter claimed...

Millions of UK landlords will be adversely affected by the Renters Reform Bill, a solicitor warns - the latest law expert...

Activist group Generation Rent is now demanding a change to the Renters Reform Bill to help tenants with energy bills. The group...

The Renters Reform Coalition - an umbrella body which includes direct action groups Acorn and the Renters Rights London - has ...

New research has uncovered what the organisations behind it call “shocking discrimination towards migrant communities” while they try to find places...

A pressure group within the Labour Party wants a future government to provide £15 billion over 10 years to allow half...

Activist group Generation Rent - which has demanded rent freezes, eviction bans and cash hand-outs to help tenants move now wants...

After genteel protests from the Generation Rent ginger group and more pro-active protests from the Acorn group of rental activists, tomorrow...

A Labour MP has spoken of loopholes in the Renters Reform Bill - a narrative now being pursued by some activists...

A pressure group is calling on the government to introduce in-tenancy restrictions on how much rents can be raised, and claims...

A group of rental activists in London claims that over 10,000 private rented homes in the borough of Brent have a...

Activists who at one time appeared broadly happy with the pro-tenant Renters Reform Bill now appear to have changed their mind. Over...

The Generation Rent activist group claims holiday homes are eroding the supply of available properties in key tourist areas.  It claims 80...

The Generation Rent campaign has given its support to a call by London Mayor Sadiq Khan to be given powers to...

Activists who until last week were focussing their campaigning on demanding the publication of the Renters Reform Bill have now announced...

In a surprise move, Housing Secretary Michael Gove has given the stand-in leader of activist group Generation Rent a prime role...

Shelter is telling the government it “must deliver” on the revolution it pledges under the Renters Reform Bill. Chief executive Polly Neate...

Research conducted by activist group Generation Rent is claiming “shocking discrimination towards minority ethnic communities while navigating the private rental market.” The...

Activists are demanding that the government stop landlords circumnavigating an imminent eviction ban by hiking rents so tenants leave anyway. The London...

Both the Generation Rent activist group and London Labour Mayor Sadiq Khan have issued a joint attack on private rental sector...

The Generation Rent activist group says the government’s proposed clampdown on short let landlords does not go far enough. At the end...

The Generation Rent campaign has criticised the current government for failing to increase energy efficiency standards in the private rental sector. A...

Housing minister Rachel Maclean is quoted as saying her government’s policies are NOT driving landlords out of the private rental sector. The...

Activist group Generation Rent is demanding that the government tighten regulations on damp and mould - and is tying this to...

Campaigners in a group called Housing Rebellion are to meet in Central London today and make what they call “a few...

A coalition of tenant activists has called a Day of Action to protest at delays in the government’s rental reform agenda. The...

A host of local Labour leaders including mayors Andy Burnham and Sadiq Khan are leading a call for an immediate private...

The Portuguese government has announced sweeping measures, mostly against landlords, which some activists want introduced in the UK too. Portuguese Prime Minister...

The Generation Rent group of activists is promoting a petition calling for private landlords to pay damages to tenants in some...

Activist groups say landlords are being pressured by their letting agents into increasing rents. Generation Rent, led by Baroness Alicia Kennedy, and...

Half of private renters have faced a rent increase in the last year, it’s claimed.  Activists in Generation Rent claims of those...

The Generation Rent campaign group says the latest English Housing Survey shows that 23 per cent of private rented homes fail...

Tenant activists have turned on the bosses of Shelter - just as the charity wants to maximise income from its annual Christmas...

The government is considering making home owners apply for planning consent if they wish to use a property for holiday lets. The...

Two groups of activists who campaign for rent controls and reform of the private lettings sector have turned on each other. Acorn...

Despite a string of pledges on rental sector reform delivered in recent days by government ministers, including Housing Secretary Michael Gove,...

Activists got reassurance from Boris Johnson and Liz Truss in the past, and have a supportive politician in the form of...

Generation Rent, the activist group led by Baroness Alicia Kennedy, has given a warm welcome to the return of Michael Gove...

The so-called emergency rent freeze and eviction ban in Scotland “can serve as a Europe-wide template for protecting tenants rights” according...

The government’s latest U-turn on Section 21 evictions powers - which it now says WILL be abolished, following earlier leaks that...

The government’s expected U-turn on the future of Section 21 eviction powers has provoked an explosion of anger from Generation Rent...

A rent freeze in Scotland - which has been condemned by many experts in the private rental sector and by housing...

Housing campaigners want the government  to give English councils planning power to refuse Airbnbs Action on Short-Term Lets, a campaign group, has...

Generation Rent, the activist group led by Baroness Alicia Kennedy, is staging a Renters Rights Awareness week in October. It was originally...

Both Shelter and Generation Rent have paused their campaigning on social media for the duration of national mourning for The Queen. A...

Media reports from Cambridge say that rent protesters in the city are to demand the council employs staff dedicated to chasing...

Activists in the Acorn group is hoping to attract Labour councillors who run Leeds to a meeting next week, which will...

A warning has been issued that anyone wanting a mortgage in future may put their credit rating at risk if they...

Bristol’s Labour council has made a name for itself with policies shifting power from landlords to tenants. Earlier this year the Mayor,...

Two tenants who were amongst a group of activists in a battle with their landlord have written in a left-wing journal...

The Baroness leading a renters’ pressure group wants to work with councils to push tenants’ rights.   Baroness Alicia Kennedy, director of Generation...

The Generation Rent group of activists says it has concerns over the broad proposals to allow landlords to charge for additional...

One of the highest profile advocates of widespread reform in the private rental sector has been Baroness Alicia Kennedy, director of...

A campaign to stop new build homes being sold to second home buyers for holiday lets has won a decisive victory...

The support package to help combat soaring fuel bills and the cost of living crisis - introduced at the end of...

Activists claim that the number of evictions using Section 21 is actually in excess of the reported by government. Ministry of Justice...

Activists in Generation Rent have repeated once again their call for a rent freeze and yet another eviction ban.  “Rents have been...

Activists have expressed their delight that the government has “listed to the voice of renters” in its provisions for widespread reform...

The government is widely expected to announce that Section 21 eviction powers will be scrapped in new legislation coming to Parliament...

Activists from pressure groups and London-focussed tenants’ bodies have handed in a letter to 10 Downing Street asking the Prime Minister...

Voters in Bristol have decided to abolish the city’s directly elected mayor following a referendum. The city was given the choice of...

Activists in the Generation Rent group have made seven demands on government including a rent freeze, the clearing of tenants’ arrears,...

Generation Rent is calling for a national rent freeze in the private sector for an unspecified period “for the duration of...

A survey by the activist group Generation Rent is asking a series of detailed questions of private tenants in the constituency...

A points-based system of rent controls is being advocated by activists associated with a controversial pro-tenant group. Living Rent, which is calling...